Goto Warbirds Resource Group Main Page Back to main registry
Send us comments Back to main index of current aircraft type
Search this site Warbirds Information Exchange Discussion Group
back to Hellcat Main Directory



Bureau #: 41834
Construction #: A-3100
Civil Registry:
  None
Model: F6F-3K
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2004
   History:
Rolled of assembly line on Feb. 4, 1944.
Delivered to U.S. Navy as Bu. 41834, 1944.
- Allocated to VF-15, San Diego, CA, Feb. 27, 1944.
- Transferred to Pearl Harbor and used as training and patrol aircraft.
-- shipped on USS Hornet - Converted to Target Drone post-war.
- Flew radiotivity monitoring flight over Bikini Island, July 1, 1946.
- Transferred aircraft to Smithsonian, July 1, 1946.
NASM, Silver Hill, MD, Oct. 4, 1960-1983.
- Stored.
- Loaned to Yorktown Association, Charleston, SC, Oct. 1976-1981.
-- Displayed on USS Yorktown, Mt. Pleasant, SC.
NASM, Silver Hill, MD, 1981.
- Stored.
- Restored for static display by Grumman Corp, Bethpage, NY, 1983.
NASM, Washington DC, 1987-1988.
NASM/Paul Garber Facility, Silver Hill, MD, 1989-2001.
- Displayed as 41834/37 until 1996.
- Stored from 1996-2001.
NASM, Washington DC, 2001-2004.
- Displayed as 41834/37.
- Moved to Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, 2003.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
 Photo Source(s):
None.